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The Mushroom at the End of the World : On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries onlyDescription: 1 online resource (352 p.) : 29 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691162751
  • 9781400873548
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.1 23
LOC classification:
  • GF21 .T76 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Enabling Entanglements -- Prologue. Autumn Aroma -- Part I. What's Left? -- 1. Arts of Noticing -- 2. Contamination as Collaboration -- 3. Some Problems with Scale -- Part II. After Progress: Salvage Accumulation -- 4. Working the Edge -- 5. Open Ticket, Oregon -- 6. War Stories -- 7. What Happened to the State? Two Kinds of Asian Americans -- 8. Between the Dollar and the Yen -- 9. From Gifts to Commodities-and Back -- 10. Salvage Rhythms: Business in Disturbance -- Part III. Disturbed Beginnings: Unintentional Design -- 11. The Life of the Forest -- 12. History -- 13. Resurgence -- 14. Serendipity -- 15. Ruin -- 16. Science as Translation -- 17. Flying Spores -- Part IV. In the Middle of Things -- 18. Matsutake Crusaders: Waiting for Fungal Action -- 19. Ordinary Assets -- 20. Anti-ending: Some People I Met along the Way -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction.By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Enabling Entanglements -- Prologue. Autumn Aroma -- Part I. What's Left? -- 1. Arts of Noticing -- 2. Contamination as Collaboration -- 3. Some Problems with Scale -- Part II. After Progress: Salvage Accumulation -- 4. Working the Edge -- 5. Open Ticket, Oregon -- 6. War Stories -- 7. What Happened to the State? Two Kinds of Asian Americans -- 8. Between the Dollar and the Yen -- 9. From Gifts to Commodities-and Back -- 10. Salvage Rhythms: Business in Disturbance -- Part III. Disturbed Beginnings: Unintentional Design -- 11. The Life of the Forest -- 12. History -- 13. Resurgence -- 14. Serendipity -- 15. Ruin -- 16. Science as Translation -- 17. Flying Spores -- Part IV. In the Middle of Things -- 18. Matsutake Crusaders: Waiting for Fungal Action -- 19. Ordinary Assets -- 20. Anti-ending: Some People I Met along the Way -- Notes -- Index

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Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction.By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)